To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.